Author: Mike S.
Date: 19:47:37 12/08/01
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On December 08, 2001 at 18:47:54, Edward Seid wrote: >(...) >I welcome any comments and suggestions. I'm especially interested in knowing if >the forum categories that I've chosen are complete for its intended userbase, >Winboard users and programmers. Which ones need to be added/deleted/subdivided? I have seen similar attempts with german language chess forums. That type of software seems to suggest that the topic is divided in several sub-fora. This may work fine for other fields of interest, i.e. computers in general, if there are enough visitors. For computer chess, or WinBoard especially, the problem will be that there are not enough visitors and postings in every (sub-)forum. Also, people will not find it comfortable to switch from one forum to the next at the list, to see all the content. It's better to have all the postings at one page. But the idea of grouping the postings by topics, could probably be done by labels which could be attached to the postings each (one or more, depending to what topic(s) it belongs). Then, users should be able to define filter settings easily, i.e. to see only testpositions, only engine news, only match results or whatever - or, most of the time, all (new) postings at once to browse through them. That would combine the benefits IMO. I don't know though, if a forum software exists which can do this. Regards, M.Scheidl P.S.: We don't have too much daily new computer chess postings on this planet anyway, although it may seem so, sometimes (but only if you really read everything). I know 3 or 4 computer chess message boards with good traffic, and another 2 or 3 which have lesser postings but survive.
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